MICHAEL WILSON

The World Wide Web is what television used to be: an invitation to be bored.

Something we've all wondered about.

Michael Wilson
Professor
16 Colchester Ave., Room 304
(802) 656-4326

Office hours: Monday, 11:15-12:15, Wednesday, 1:00-2:00, and by appointment.

Math 161 Class Page

Research interests: Fourier analysis; particularly Littlewood-Paley theory, and mostly the weighted kind.

Applications: signal processing (kind of), the Schroedinger operator (kind of). [This is really a classic example of begging the question, because now one must ask: What are those good for?]

Did you ever hear the one about the wavelet who got run over by a Hilbert transform?

For a selection of reasonably recent papers (and my CV), click here.

Assorted Non-Mathematical stuff.

I recently visited Spain. The visit was glorious, but the journey there wasn't. You can read about it here.

Click here for a picture of America's sweetheart.

"A Door Left Open"; a short story (approximately 3900 words). In PDF.

"John Lennon is Dead" ; a short story (approximately 5700 words). In PDF

"Procrustes Stretched"; An Ayn Rand Parody. In PDF

Three (slightly outdated) theories about the Millennium Problem (Y2K).

Soliloquy : a teleplay (in PDF) for Deep Space Nine---unsold, alas.

"Departed Quantity"; a short story (approximately 6000 words). In PDF

"The Celestial Guardians"; a short story (approximately 4500 words). In PDF

``After returning from Japan''; a short-short (312 words) excerpted from the Japan memoir (see below). In PDF

A short story, ``Command Peformance'' (approximately 6000 words), about Callisthenes (the nephew of Aristotle), who traveled with the army of Alexander the Great. In PDF

``The Prospect of Winter Driving''; a short story (approximately 5400 words). In PDF

``From Socrates to Star Fleet: A Garland of Parodies.'' In PDF

A short-short, ``Not Coming, Ever'' (approximately 550 words). In PDF

A Japan Memoir (approximately 16,500 words). In PDF

Danny DeVito, playing James Bond, introduces himself.

Click here for the infamous Titanic SNL sketch.

Join Thousand Points of Light, the unofficial Peggy Noonan fan club. Click here for a fine picture of The Lady.

Twelve paranormal meditations. (Not a piano piece by Messiaen.)

A deep thought.

Liturgical Drama: Four New Yorker cartoons.

Sites you never knew existed (guaranteed non-offensive):
`What did you call that park again?'
`Qapla!'
`It's . . . so big---REALLY big!'
`What plan were you using?'
`Who was the guy who played that guy in that movie? You know? The one with the thing?'